Keep checking in! As the Read-a-Thon progresses and participants spend more minutes reading poetry, the suns under each school's name will fill with color and look more and more like this:
Pio Peep! Edited by Alma Flor Ada
From the Bellybutton of the Moon by Francisco X. Alarcon
Don’t Step on the Sky by Miriam Chaikin
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You by John Ciardi
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Spin a Soft Black Song by Nikki Giovanni
Technically, It’s Not My Fault by John Grandits
The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjo
I Heard It From Alice Zucchini by Juanita Havill
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell
Verse!: Poetry for Young Children by Gillian Jerome
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
Talking to the Sun edited by Kenneth Koch
My Dog Ate My Homework by Bruce Lansky
Confetti by Pat Mora
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Math Talk by Leoni Pappas
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant by Jack Prelutsky
The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires
Songs of Shiprock Fair by Luci Tapahonso
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Elementary School Reading List
Pio Peep! Edited by Alma Flor Ada
From the Bellybutton of the Moon by Francisco X. Alarcon
Don’t Step on the Sky by Miriam Chaikin
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You by John Ciardi
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Spin a Soft Black Song by Nikki Giovanni
Technically, It’s Not My Fault by John Grandits
The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjo
I Heard It From Alice Zucchini by Juanita Havill
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly by Juan Felipe Herrera
The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell
Verse!: Poetry for Young Children by Gillian Jerome
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
Talking to the Sun edited by Kenneth Koch
My Dog Ate My Homework by Bruce Lansky
Confetti by Pat Mora
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Math Talk by Leoni Pappas
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant by Jack Prelutsky
The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires
Songs of Shiprock Fair by Luci Tapahonso
Stanza Bonanza Elementary School Reading Challenge!
Rio Vista Elementary School
...winner with 200,957 minutes!
Castlehill Country Day School
...1st runner-up with 67,833 minutes!
Ms. Meyer’s 2nd Grade Class wins in the category of “most creative bonus activities!”
Click here to view selected student work.
Laura Nobles Banks Elementary School
...2nd runner-up with 54,967 minutes!
Holladay Intermediate Elementary School
...3rd runner-up with 53,427 minutes!
Safford Elementary School
...4th runner-up with 49,385 minutes!
Van Buskirk Elementary School
...finished with 19,834 minutes!
Holaway Elementary School
...finished with 13,615 minutes!
Selected “bonus minute activities” from Ms. Meyer’s 2nd Grade Class!
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Lava Poem by Ashlynn
Rainbow Poem by Daniel
"By the Light of the Halloween Moon" by Logan
“Round about there” by Kaustabh
